Sidehatch
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Re: Marathon Tips?
September 23, 2019 at 02:01 PM UTC
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WalkOnBack wrote:
Maybe it's just me, but this is how I perceive all runners:
well maybe not all…but I was going to remind you to log in with your Space account after that
almost three decades ago I was happily a mid distance runner. But no more, I'm a heavy foot and it just is too much for my old bones to bear
I don't understand a lot of runners.
I would say close to 75% of the people I see running on the trails have a grimace on their face that makes it look like they are truly hating what they are doing
that I don't get
K8teebug
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Re: Marathon Tips?
September 23, 2019 at 02:04 PM UTC
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I smoked a bunch of cigarettes and then decided to take up running. Not a fast runner, but I love it and it changed my life.
Chicago Marathon in 3 weeks.
grateful
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Re: Marathon Tips?
September 23, 2019 at 02:09 PM UTC
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WalkOnBack wrote:
Maybe it's just me, but this is how I perceive all runners:
"I used to run 15 marathons every month; I ran a 1000 miles every day; I used to run run run run. But now my body, is all fucked up and I can barely walk. Why, did I do that to myself."
Holy shit you know me so well! How did you get inside my head? Are you stalking me?!?
jrpa
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Re: Marathon Tips?
September 23, 2019 at 02:11 PM UTC
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WalkOnBack wrote:
pitch wrote:
WalkOnBack wrote:
Maybe it's just me, but this is how I perceive all runners:
well maybe not all…but I was going to remind you to log in with your Space account after that
If I was Space, I would make sure to include whatever my kid is doing, within my posting.
Rare savage burn from Walkie. I LOLed.
Sidehatch
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Re: Marathon Tips?
October 12, 2019 at 08:02 PM UTC
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Eliud Kipchoge breaks the 2-Hour Marathon Barrier
in my best shape I don't think I could ever do 4:34 mile…this guy does 26
grateful
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Re: Marathon Tips?
October 12, 2019 at 08:03 PM UTC
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Hey k8teebug - have a great race tomorrow!
Space Freely
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Re: Marathon Tips?
October 13, 2019 at 07:18 PM UTC
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WORLD wrote:
Eliud Kipchoge breaks the 2-Hour Marathon Barrier
in my best shape I don't think I could ever do 4:34 mile…this guy does 26
Were you on the track team? Anything under 5 mins is considered excellent for a high school runner, 4:34 would be phenomenal. (3:43 is the world record.)
Sidehatch
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Re: Marathon Tips?
October 13, 2019 at 08:59 PM UTC
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Space wrote:
WORLD wrote:
Eliud Kipchoge breaks the 2-Hour Marathon Barrier
in my best shape I don't think I could ever do 4:34 mile…this guy does 26
Were you on the track team? Anything under 5 mins is considered excellent for a high school runner, 4:34 would be phenomenal. (3:43 is the world record.)
Never broke 5, I recall getting 5:05 …30 years ago
Space Freely
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Re: Marathon Tips?
October 13, 2019 at 09:23 PM UTC
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WORLD wrote:
Space wrote:
WORLD wrote:
Eliud Kipchoge breaks the 2-Hour Marathon Barrier
in my best shape I don't think I could ever do 4:34 mile…this guy does 26
Were you on the track team? Anything under 5 mins is considered excellent for a high school runner, 4:34 would be phenomenal. (3:43 is the world record.)
Never broke 5, I recall getting 5:05 …30 years ago
Nice! My hat is off to you. My best mile time was actually pretty slow. 10K was probably my best distance back in the day(in my mid-20's).
Sidehatch
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Re: Marathon Tips?
October 14, 2019 at 01:06 PM UTC
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WORLD wrote:
Eliud Kipchoge breaks the 2-Hour Marathon Barrier
in my best shape I don't think I could ever do 4:34 mile…this guy does 26
I was wondering what they meant by 'assisted' marathon
The Greatest, Fakest World Record To sustain this blistering pace, Kipchoge ran under conditions that had been painstakingly and exclusively arranged to push him beyond the two-hour barrier. The INEOS 1:59 Challenge was not a race by any strict definition: It was simply Kipchoge, joined by a rotating phalanx of pacesettersStill an amazing feat no less
grateful
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Re: Marathon Tips?
October 14, 2019 at 01:08 PM UTC
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There was a time not so long ago that people believed no human could run a sub-2 hour marathon, under any conditions.
jrpa
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Re: Marathon Tips?
October 14, 2019 at 01:32 PM UTC
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Heilung4eva wrote:
There was a time not so long ago that people believed no human could run a sub-2 hour marathon, under any conditions.
Sidehatch
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Re: Marathon Tips?
October 18, 2019 at 04:11 PM UTC
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so are you guys now sporting the Nike Vaporfly kicks….
In the last 13 months alone, male runners have recorded the 5 fastest marathon times ever in Vaporfly's
grateful
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Re: Marathon Tips?
October 18, 2019 at 04:16 PM UTC
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Yeah, no. I won't even be setting my own personal record next week…
Sidehatch
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Re: Marathon Tips?
October 18, 2019 at 04:17 PM UTC
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Heilung4eva wrote:
Yeah, no. I won't even be setting my own personal record next week…
you might if you had the Vaporfly!
I'm just offering you a tip…as this is the Marathon Tips? thread
grateful
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Re: Marathon Tips?
October 18, 2019 at 04:18 PM UTC
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I'm 20-30 minutes off, but if VaporFly can do that, I'm all in!
sweetcell
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Re: Marathon Tips?
October 18, 2019 at 07:05 PM UTC
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the wrote:
so are you guys now sporting the Nike Vaporfly kicks….
In the last 13 months alone, male runners have recorded the 5 fastest marathon times ever in Vaporfly's
$250+ for
shoes that are creating problems? no thanks!
(as if a slowpoke like me should even be opining here…)
Sidehatch
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Re: Marathon Tips?
October 18, 2019 at 07:17 PM UTC
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Heilung4eva wrote:
I'm 20-30 minutes off, but if VaporFly can do that, I'm all in!
A 2018 New York Times data analysis based on public race results uploaded to Strava, the athlete-tracking and networking company, found that runners in Vaporflys ran 3 to 4 percent faster than similar runners wearing other shoes.
what would a 4% improvement be to your current best
grateful
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Re: Marathon Tips?
October 18, 2019 at 07:22 PM UTC
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Golly, um. PR from 2015 was 3:24, or 204 minutes. 4% of 204 is 8:10 minutes.
I'll be overjoyed to hit 3:45 this year, or 225 minutes. 4% of 225 is 9:00 minutes.
I'll be disappointed to go over 4:00, or 240 minutes. 4% of 240 is 9:36 minutes.
Also, I doubt the shoes actually do that. Maybe if you were wearing wooden clogs before…